Kommentare

Kommentar von JulesPeace

The droprate of the Pristines is 11%. I collected the data of the achievementhunters of our guild and some friends again to verify this point like I already did with Das Heim des Wissens, meaning:

In average you'll only need 196 artifacts (without rares) to get this achievement. Compared to Das Heim des Wissens, where you needed 720 solves, these are very good news!

But in case you have all except by one, you'll need on average 72 for the last one, but you'll just have it after 214 with a chance of 95% and after 329 with a chance of 99%. You can also be extremely lucky like me and have it after unbelieveable 110 solves! The 20 of all took me 185 solves, which is quite lucky, too.

Hope this helps your motivation!

EDIT: Nice bug with the droprate of Mantis-Bernsplitter! You'll get more Mantis-Bernsplitter than you can use at the moment, so do this achievement as fast as you can! This will sure gonna be fixed. I'm at ~50 solves at the moment and already have 3 stacks of Mantis-Bernsplitter, although I use a one with every solve!EDIT 2: This got livehotfixed last night. (07-03-2013)EDIT 3: If you already have Das Heim des Wissens done, use Sonar für Mantisartefakte! The spawns are very close to each other, I did it with the Hearthstone in Tonlong and use it always after clearing Tonlong or Dread Wastes.

Kommentar von Eioth

Completed this today, and I can confirm that this does not award some hidden title like Das Heim des Wissens.

For me it ended up fairly balanced, by the time I got my 8th pristine, I had all Collector's achievement done apart from one, which was at 19/20. 202 Mantid solves in total.

This was a lot easier to complete than Das Heim des Wissens, because when you use Sonar für Mantisartefakte, you will only have mantid digsites in Pandaria, and they are all close to eachother, in either Dread Wastes or Townlong Steppes.

Kommentar von Bizerk

Got mine in 83 solves, regardless of statistical accuracy and random traces of math involved, it's a thousand times more forgiving than seeker of knowledge which took 700.

Kommentar von Kyok

Digsites are only placed in Townlong Stepes and Dread Wastes so it's much faster to collect artefacts for Mantids than Das Heim des Wissens

Kommentar von ns88

This should give a title imo. Quite an prestigeful acheivement

Kommentar von sourfire

Took me 333 solves and bit over a 100 solves from my 2nd to last to last pristine item. With 49 of them on the one I needed. Don't give up it feels bad but before you know it you get it I guess. At 621 Solves for the other one and still need 3 pandaren ones to go.

Kommentar von Tylandria

I'm at 623 Mantid solves and still missing my final Pristine. I have no idea what is going on. I understand RNG is RNG, but this seems a bit extreme? It took me over 900 combined to finish Pandaren and Mogu, but my Mantid trumps them. First few days of 5.2 I had all of them but one and stopped for a bit. I went back to finish up on the 17th. I've been at this 4 days with well over 400 artifacts made in these 4 days, 71 alone of the one I need Pristine. Still no where in sight. I've asked around to others doing Archaeology and since last Tuesday no one has seen a Pristine.

Edit: After 678 Solves...it finally popped for me...I wish everyone luck on achieving this. I'm done with Archaeology for a long time....

Kommentar von marmotul

Bad RNG is very bad RNG .(I hope to soon say bye to archeology until next expansion...if i'm lucky)For all those waiting for the last pristine i've found the solution on what to do with the restored artifactsBEHOLD! Zin'rokh, Destroyer of Worlds

Kommentar von lemon031

Got this at 87 mantid solves.

Still working on seeker of knowledge - over 600 solves and I'm still waiting on the pristine tea set.

Kommentar von Omnitronx

As of 5.3 there is still no convergence algorithm, the solves/pristines are still random. Got the achieve after a combined 372 mantid solves. The 45th Mantid Lamp and 44th Ancient Sap Feeder were pristine... That's either some terrible luck, or the pristine rate is much much lower than 10%.

Kommentar von wowZhenek

237 solves to complete 20/20 everything and then the pristine thingy. Must say I got pretty lucky with every pristine but the last one. Had them pop at sub 17 of each item but the last one, of course, had to spoil it and took me 33 solves. Damn ancient sap feeders.Ultimately the grind is much better than the panda/mogu one due to digsites being relatively small (basically I've never seen a red color on my indicator) and pretty close to each other.

Kommentar von Dumdeedum

This should totally award the title "entomologist". Get on it, Blizzard!

I consider myself pretty lucky with these numbers, especially with Pandaren and Mogu, even though I almost performed some random executions on things (like my ever so smiling, quirky Mickey Mouse telephone) in my home while doing this.While farming archaeology I would highly recommend using:

Sammlerhandschuhe - practically a must have if don't want to end up having a mental breakdown by for example screaming at a picture of your grandmother blaming her for not preparing you mentally for this endeavor.

I also found that some other items/gear could provide usefulness in this undertaking:

Krabblerpanzer – great for avoiding encounters that can disturb your Tantra moment seeking.

I consider myself pretty lucky with these numbers, especially with Pandaren and Mogu, even though I almost performed some random executions on things (like my ever so smiling, quirky Mickey Mouse telephone) in my home while doing this.While farming archaeology I would highly recommend using:

Sammlerhandschuhe - practically a must have if you don't want to end up having a mental breakdown by for example screaming at a picture of your grandmother blaming her for not preparing you mentally for this endeavor.

Archy – an excellent add-on also helping the prevention of prematurely committing suicide.

TomTom – works great with Archy by providing waypoints and valuable directions to take in life (and maybe WoW too).

While farming for these achievements I traded in restored artifacts for Tol’vir fragments and that got me both Szepter von Azj'Aqir and Eiskaltes Händchen. I listened to the trance channel on www.di.fm during this too and that website is recommended for anyone who listens to electronic music. I hope my input helps someone in soothing the mental trial this surely is.

Kommentar von Stryker666

I am not sure whether this is a coincidence or not but this evening I got three Pristine Artifacts out of three solves using Mantis-Bernsplitter.